What is going on on this blog.
Did you know that there is a button on WordPress blogs that will go through all your blog posts and insert the publication date into the URL? Neither did I until I pressed it by mistake. It wouldn’t normally be that big a deal because you can reset it fairly easily. Except that I didn’t …
I have been doing this blog for a while now and while I have been keeping the content updated, it is a long time since I looked at the appearance of the blog itself. I was fairly happy with it when I settled on the layout about 5 years ago. But nothing stays the same …
The Daily Mail has a big story today warning of the risks of counterfeit cosmetics. This is the paper that disgracefully talked up the MMR story until a substantial proportion of the population were failing to get their vaccinated against a very nasty and sometimes fatal disease. Their journalistic standards are so low that I …
Let’s start at the beginning since as the song says, it is a very good place to start. And when I say the beginning I really do mean the beginning. Archeological finds have indicated that we have been using makeup for a very long time. In fact we may well have been using makeup for …
The Story of Cosmetics Part 1 -Neanderthals (Sponsored by Artful Teasing) Read More »
A deeply probing question from Kareen of Ziba.com. Hi Colin, I’ve been following your blog regularly and reading some of your articles on personalcaretruth.com as well. I am a beauty blogger and I am looking for advice on the best way to read cosmetics ingredients lists and make sense of them. When I do my …
Colin Solves Your Problems 26 – Where Can I find out about Cosmetic Ingredients? Read More »
Beauty by the Geeks is a new blog about beauty written by a couple of scientists, Brigitte and Rosie who are at Newcastle University studying medical science. There aren’t enough scientists blogging about this area. There is room for a lot more. The Beauty by the Geek approach is quite different from others. They look …
Well the blog has been out of action for 9 days, so my apologies to everyone who tried to get onto it over that time. It still isn’t entirely back to normal. I get intermittent periods of extreme resource usage that might still bring the site down. I am diligently working through the setup to …
If you have been following this blog for some time you may remember the days when it used to vanish towards the end of the month. I was only paying for a small amount of bandwidth and if I posted something popular it would all get used up. I solved this by upgrading to what …
I have devoted a big chunk of space on the right hand side of the blog to a news feed. This was proposed to me by a PR company who provide the content. I thought it sounded like a good idea and would be of interest to people who find my stuff interesting. It has …
In yesterday’s post about whether you need a skin care regime I said that I wasn’t sure what exactly a toner was supposed to do. Some people have taken this to mean I don’t think they do anything. This isn’t the case. I am sure they must do something given how long they have been …
